Re:2020 Mac Mini – Putting Apple Silicon M1 To The Test
by spear on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @05:24PM
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Exactly right. With today's transistor budgets, the x86 ISA decoder/translator is just noise.
This is not the difference between x86 and ARM -- it's the difference between Intel's team and Apple's (also AMD's). You don't see Qualcomm being competitive even though they also use ARM.
This is not the difference between x86 and ARM -- it's the difference between Intel's team and Apple's (also AMD's). You don't see Qualcomm being competitive even though they also use ARM.